Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-02-23

rae soasd Advice Thss IL Given BY . Psosss.
siouai soaihssn JourssD.
From the New south
Hsd We ths car OF every young farmer In
the Southern states, We would asy 10 him,
aud repeat II over aud over again, "stick TO
the farm" Ennobae your calling. Educate
yourself for II, and by judicious experiment.,
close observation and untiring labor and
painstaking, make II the source OF mental
improvement pleasure aud pront when
we say educate yourself for II, we do not
mean education In the schools and colleges,
though We think that In these far more at.
ten,iou should be given to the branches
connected with agriculture We mean that
the young farmer should, by . judicious
oourse Of reading aud thinking In tho inter.
val. OF labor, acquire tho intslligoncs that II
read a,tentively short elementary works
In geology, chemistry and plant physiology.
The necessary BOOKS can be got for not moro
than two dollars Having laid the founda.
ti0n In these, let him continue the course
through life by subscribing for one or two
good newspapers We don't mean agricui.
tural papers which treat Of nothing but the
ono subject, but good weekly newspaper,
formation on all topics. Nearly all tho lead.
Ing weeklies have . department devoted to
agriculture. conducted by . competent edi.
tor. society OF young farmers in each
neighborhood would DO y most valuable ad-
junct
Lot him mako experiments Of his own,
cautiously, and daily learn something BY oh.
starvation. II Ia = certain tact that every acre
OF land, II II has . medium subsOil and In
pretty we'll drained, can, by careful tillage
and judicious use or home. made Fertilizers,
be made 70 yield twice the quantity OF cotton
or corn that II yields With the ordinary I'll.
ego. A careful selection OF seed alone will
always increase the crop and II persevered
mont variety, valuable not only to the pro.
ducer, but to his fellow farmerA Let the
young farmer give his attention 70 these
things, adding daily 70 his knowledge, add.
that agriculture IL the civilizsr OF mankind
} ana the ultimate source OF the wealth OF ell
nationA Let every young farmer, then, be
proud Of his calling, and seek to adorn It
We are aware that spirit Of unrest u
abroad among the young farmers Of tho
South. For some years their labors have
been hard, and their profits small and slow
to accumulate. Many OF them fancy that .
surer, shorter, less laborious road ~ com.
petence may be found In the professions, In
trade, or In other kinds OF labor. In this
they are mistaken. The depression II wide
spread wide ~ the civilizsd world Il Per.
meates every avocation, every rank OF
society. The professions arc overcrowded.
here and there II . professional man who
acquires competence and fame (; but for every
one Of these there are scores who exc out .
meager Subsistence, very many Of them not
knowing how they are to pay their board or
house rent at the end OF the month nor their
grOcer's and butchers bill at the end OF the
week. One reads and hears OF the successful
ones, but not Of the others just ~ one reads
OF the few who draw the big lottery prizes
among the news items OF the public prints,
but the names OF the thousands who draw
the bAnks-never
And In tho mercantile busiuoss-few
young farmers can form . conception OF the
physical and mental labor tho merchant and
mis- clerk and other employees must undergo.
For the former, days OF toll and sleepless
nights OF anxious thought! For the latter,
days OF unrenittiDg slavish work, with un.
easy doubts ~ to what the future, with the
vicissitudes OF trade, may bring! Homeless
and without means or employment! Can our
young farmer friends fancy the full meaning
Of these words? And how many merchants
succeed in their business We have seen It
stated, by good authority, that not more than
five on: OF . hundred retire from business
with . competence. The other ninety.five
see their capital slowly melt 10 nothingness,
or II In swept away ut one swoop that brings
bankruptcy and ruin 10 the merchant aud
loss OF position 10 his employees.